I almost clicked it too. There has to be a better way than having to be constantly vigilant against being duped into "consenting" to be spied upon. The internet doesn't have to suck like this.

A screenshot depicting a website's cookie enablement popup, showing the "Functional Cookies" slider disabled. At the bottom of the popup, there are two identically formatted buttons: a "Confirm my choices" button in the bottom-left corner, and an "Allow all" button in the bottom-right corner.
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[–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago*

I deeply resent how much of my brain is occupied with sidestepping sneaky bullshit like this. It's gotten to the point where I generally don't use a website if I can't use it without going through their dark patterns permissions labyrinth. I only put up with going through this one because I was researching turtles and there's a paper cited on Wikipedia I just cannot find.

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